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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 301-JUNE 28, 1944 The appropriation herein made for the Office of War Information shall constitute the total amount to be available for obligation by such agency during the fiscal year 1945 and shall not be supplemented by funds from any source except by reverse lend-lease. OFFICE OF WAR MOBILIZATION Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses of the Office of War Mobilization, including salary of the Director at $15,000 per annum; salaries of two Assistant Directors at $9,000 per annum each; not to exceed $169,000 for the employment of persons or organizations by contract or otherwise without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, or the civil-service and classification laws; and printing and binding; $900,000. WAR PRODUCTION BOARD Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses of the War Pro- duction Board, including salary of the Chairman at $15,000 per annum, and salaries of six vice chairmen or principal officials at $10,000 per annum each; the employment of aliens; the employment of expert witnesses; not to exceed $20,000 for the temporary employ- ment of persons or organizations, by contract or otherwise, without regard to the civil-service or classification laws; not to exceed $5,000 for entertainment of officials of other countries when specifically authorized or approved by the Chairman; reimbursement at not to exceed 3 cents per mile, of employees for expenses incurred by them in performance of official travel in privately owned automobiles within the limits of their official stations; not to exceed $4,625,000 for travel expenses, including travel to and from their homes or regular places of business in accordance with the Standardized Travel Regu- lations, including travel in privately owned automobile (and includ- ing per diem in lieu of subsistence at place of employment), of per- sons employed intermittently away from their homes or regular places of business as compliance commissioners and receiving compensation on a per diem when actually employed basis; not to exceed $1,217,000 for printing and binding; not to exceed $4,500,000 for scientific research on materials, material substitutes, and other subjects related to the functions of the Board, without regard to section 3648, Revised Statutes; and the rental maintenance and operation of one airplane; $67,500,000: Provided, That the requirement in section 301 of the Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act, 1943, and in section 201 (a) of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1944, that the payment of expenses of travel of employees on transfer from one official station to another must be authorized in the order direct- ing the transfer is hereby waived with respect to such travel per- formed, with the approval of the Chairman of the Board, or his designee, in the fiscal year 1943, and in the fiscal year 1944 prior to November 1, 1943. Smaller War Plants Corporation, administrative expenses: Not to exceed $10,000,000 of the funds of the Smaller War Plants Cor- poration, acquired in accordance with the Act of June 11, 1942 (Public Law 603), shall be available for the administrative expenses of such Corporation necessary to enable it to carry out the functions vested in it by such Act, to carry out the provisions of section 2 of such Act, and such other functions as may be lawfully delegated to the Corporation, including the salary of the Chairman of the Board at $10,000 per annum; not to exceed $10,000 for the employment of aliens; not to exceed $500,000 for the temporary employment of per- sons or organizations by contract or otherwise without regard to the 541 Post, pp. 792,856,874. 41 U. S.C.C 5. Pot, p. 874. Chairman. Travel expenses Printing and bind- ing. Scientific research. 31 U. S .C.. §29. Travel expenses on change of station. 56 Stat. 169. 57 Stat. 194. Administrative ex- penses. Poat,p. 874. 56 Stat. 351 . 50 U. S. C., Supp. m, app. 1§1101-1112 Temprary employ- ment.

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